Conversion from Paper to Vector
If you need your existing hand-drawn paper drawings converted into a CADD Drawing, then you have come to the right place. The process is called VECTORIZATION. Our production shop operates 2-shifts a day and 6-days a week to provide you with a quick turn-around.
You tell us what levels, colors, weights, styles, fonts, etc. to use and that is the way you get them back. Your drawings will be full of vectors and text, just as if you drew the drawing yourself!
We can be an extension of your CADD Department when you need us. So why gear up for those fluctuating work loads by purchasing additional equipment and hiring (and training) extra personnel? Use our services when you need us, and we will be on standby
when you don't need us.
We do not use automatic conversion from raster to vector - this process is not yet refined. We use board and heads-up digitizing to assure your work is correct. And you won't beat our pricing anywhere! We use Precision Key-ins for any scaled or dimensioned drawing and if your drawing shows coordinates, then we geo-reference your entire drawing to fit the coordinate system.
Scanning Paper Documents
If you need your existing paper drawings scanned into the computer, then you have come to the right place. We can scan your drawings into any format you desire and write them out to CD for you. We use Intergraph's Eagle Scanners for the greatest accuracy possible.
Our turn-around time cannot be beat! We are capable of scanning 1,000 drawings each day to meet your schedule. We can scan your drawings for as little as $3.00 per sheet for "D" & "E" size drawings and less than that for smaller sizes. We provide lower pricing for large quantities! We can also index your drawings as they are scanned in an Access database or Excel spreadsheet.
GIS
If you have the need to link Database information to your Vector drawings and turn them into intelligent drawings, then give us a call. We can create a database for you or use an existing one if you have it. We can link records in your database to vector elements in your drawings. You can then querey your drawing to find all sorts of information.
We specialize in working with maps and aerial photographs. We can take photographs which you give us or that we provide for you and we can geo-reference them to the earth to the exact state plane coordinate system that will be useful for you. We take overlapping photographs and create a seamless mosaic of the images so that you will never see where they have been spliced. We then create one image of the corridor that you need to work in. CALL US TODAY FOR PRICING and turn-around times.
Programming
If you need an MDL Program written for a specific task, then let us write it for you. Our team of experienced MDL Programmers have written hundreds of routines and created a multitude of useful applications for many of our clients.
If you find yourself doing repetitive tasks over and over, then replace them with an MDL program to save time and money. The MDL Language works seamlessly through MicroStation and provides hooks into the graphic engine to give strength and muscle to your custom applications.
Rendering & Ray Tracing
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Our Visualization Staff at Texas Computer Graphics, Inc. is experienced in creating photo-realistic renderings for your next presentation. We can create your wireframe model from your Plan & Profile drawings. Then we can add texture mapping, lights, shadows, and a host of other features to make your model come ALIVE!
Whether you want Raytrace images or simply Rendered images, we can do it all for you, and for less too! If it is an animated video of your model that you prefer - we can create that too. Recently we created an award-winning video for Chicago Bridge & Iron.
Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
Just another buzz-word for something useful. Just imagine, scanning your letter and legal documents and converting them into MicroSoft Word or WordPerfect or any other word processing format you want. You can give us your paper documents and we will give you a computer file in the format you need.
If you want to simply scan all your hundreds and thousands of paper documents onto a CD so you can operate in a "paperless society", then we can do that for you too. In fact we can provide you with software that will search and locate any scanned document that you desire. This is the direction that the world is headed! You can find your documents faster if they are on the computer than if they are still in the filing cabinet.
Transfer Home Movies to DVD
Your 8mm home movies and VHS & Hi8 video tapes degrade over time depending on how you store them. Before you lose all your treasured memories, get them transferred onto DVD today. We can take your home movies and video tapes and write them to DVD with convenient titles so you can watch the movie of your choice. We also print custom labels onto your DVD. That's right! We have printers that print directly onto special DVD blanks - we don't use paper labels. Call us for details.